Sleeping in the back seat

Locked-out man smashes window of electric car

Smashed windshield on the passenger side of the electric Mercedes EQE.(Bild: zVg)

A German man (24) living in Linz came up with the glorious idea of spending the night in an electric Mercedes after he was unable to get into his apartment. He had allegedly locked himself out. The young man did not regard the fact that the car was locked as an insurmountable obstacle. He smashed the side window and took a nap in the back seat - until the police arrived.

It was Sunday morning, shortly after 3.30 a.m., when Constantin H. from Linz was suddenly woken from his sleep by a loud noise. "The noise came from the side of the street," the 25-year-old confirmed in an interview with "Krone".

As the young man looked out of his window onto Breitwiesergutstraße, he noticed a stranger banging wildly on the side window of a parked car. "He hit it with a stone until the window was broken."

H. alerted the police. At 3.43 a.m., three patrol cars from the Lenaupark police station arrived at the scene of the incident.

Found slumbering
There was no sign of the perpetrator at the time and the officers illuminated the area with flashlights - to no avail. However, when H. gave his personal details, the police noticed that a person was lying on the back seat of the black Mercedes EQE, slumbering peacefully.

Fragments of the smashed side window(Bild: zVg)

As it turned out, it was a 24-year-old German who was obviously intoxicated and whose home address was not far from the scene of the crime.

Uncooperative during interrogation
The 24-year-old, who was drunk from sleep, is said to have behaved rather uncooperatively towards the officers and used abusive language. He claimed that he had locked himself out of his apartment without his cell phone and keys and therefore wanted to spend the night in the Mercedes.

The German tried to explain to the police officers that it was none of their business, as the electric car belonged to his father's company anyway. Nevertheless, the police are now investigating for damage to property.